“The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”: A review of Thanhha Lai’s Latest Novel Butterfly Yellow About Tra
Thanhha Lai is a well-poised Vietnamese author who wrote her debut novel, Inside Out and Back Again. She won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and was Newbery Honor Recipient. Along with her debut novel, her next novel, Listen, Slowly, also sought praise by New York Times as bestseller and New York Times Book Review. Lai’s newest young adult novel, Butterfly Yellow, pieces together a heart-felt story about an eighteen-year-old Vietnamese refugee girl, Hằng